Nick Kroll

Nick Kroll might play a prick on FX’s The League, but that’s not the only alter ego the standup comic and actor can morph into. On his Comedy Central show, he also becomes a Jersey Shore castoff, a spoiled trust-fund kid and an annoying NBA referee. Not all the characters land, but when they do, it’s golden.

Ecologically themed art tends to be dull and sanctimonious, but not so in the hands of Wesley Younie. His idylls of environmental paradise lost abound with equal parts whimsy and intelligence. In the ...